Various Folders In Mandrake 9.2 Appear As Access Denied

Tank400 · 04-17-2004, 12:16 PM

Hi

I have just installed mandrake 9.2 and when I go top open the following folders:

boot
dev
etc
root
and within the folder mnt I am unable to open all my windows shares

The following error appears when attempting to open any of the folders:

You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "what ever the folder is"

I think this is probably quite simple to fix but can’t be sure

Thanks

czarherr · 04-17-2004, 03:58 PM

sounds like a permissions issue, really. you should just need to chmod the directories you dont have access to so normal users can access them, although normal users shouldnt need to be in the root, boot, etc, or dev directories

Tank400 · 04-17-2004, 04:19 PM

hi

thanks czarherr but I managed to gain access to my shared folder on my windows server but i can only read not write to the directory but when I got to change the permissions is says that I cant because i am not the root user.

Is there any way round this

Thanks

czarherr · 04-17-2004, 05:00 PM

oh, gotta be root, of course. hopefully youre the root user, if not, talk to them. as far as read only goes, that will be in the configuration of samba (assuming thats what youre using)

Tank400 · 04-17-2004, 05:05 PM

how do i make my self a root user and yes I am using samba

czarherr · 04-17-2004, 09:58 PM

well, at some point you were asked to enter a root password during install. At login, you type in root at login, then your root password. better yet, you should avoid logging in directly as root, and instead log on as a user, enter

su

then your root password when it prompts for it, then youre root

Tank400 · 04-18-2004, 04:18 AM

Ok so I login as my normal user but where do I enter su?